WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN OUR PRIDE DAY CELEBRATIONS AT WALPOLE BAY LAWNS AND DREAMLAND 🏳️🌈⚧💖
Please register for a free ticket to get priority access*. Tickets are limited to 4 per person. This year, we will hold our free daytime activities in two different locations, and we will travel between them during the parade, which leaves Walpole Bay Lawns at 12 pm and will take us all to our day party at Dreamland which starts at 1pm.
PROGRAMME (timings and lineup announced nearer the time)
10am-12pm Walpole Bay Lawns FREE
- Family Storytime
- Boogie Bounce Dance Class
- Pride Paws Parade - gay dog show
- Parade Meeting Point
- Please bring mats, blankets and chairs to sit on
- And MORE
12pm-1pm Parade
1pm-4.30pm Dreamland FREE
- Drag Performances
- Live Music
- Rally
- Speeches
- Community Stalls
- Mx Margate
- and MORE
2pm-430pm Margate Youth Pride @ Dreamland FREE
- Arts & Craft
- Live Music
- Little Mx Margate - hosted by Dr Ronx!
- Youth Pride March around Dreamland
- Open to all 11-19yrs
- Parent and guardian crèche
- Email engagement@margatepride.org.uk to sign up
6PM-11PM Dreamland Drag Party PAID
ACCESSIBILITY AT WALPOLE BAY LAWNS
- Ramped access
- Accessible toilet + baby changing
- Gender Neutral Toilets
- Welfare Lead + Volunteers on hand
- First aid cover + welfare tent
ACCESSIBILITY AT DREAMLAND
- Ramped access
- Accessible toilet + baby changing
- Gender Neutral Toilets
- Welfare Lead + Volunteers on hand
- First aid cover + welfare tent
- Full access info here
DOGS
As long as they're on a lead, dogs are welcome at Walpole Bay Lawns and they can also enter the Gay Dog Show! Dogs are not allowed at Dreamland unless they are service dogs.
VOLUNTEERING
Margate Pride is a DIY grassroots Pride and cannot happen without our wonderful volunteers! There are several roles that need filling, and you play an essential part of the day!
For Pride day on 10th August, we have several shifts at the bandstand. Roles include welcoming people at the ticket desk; directing people to the welfare tent if needed; smiling; answering questions; encouraging people to complete our essential feedback forms; dancing; helping with litter picking and directing visitors to bins! spreading joy and petting dogs.
We also need stewards in the parade! You will receive training beforehand (via zoom session) and a briefing on the day as well as being fed & watered : )
Sign up here x
CONDITIONS
*Tickets do not guarantee access but you will be prioritised. There are refreshments available inside the Dreamland and toilet facilities, including disabled access. During the daytime events you are welcome to bring your own soft drink and snacks. Once you exit Dreamland you are not guaranteed re-entry. It depends on whether capacity is reached.
As a condition of attending and purchasing tickets for the event, participants agree the following waiver:
I acknowledge and agree that I participate in Margate Pride at my own risk. I release and indemnify Margate Pride CIC organisations or corporations associated directly or indirectly with the conduct of the event, from and against all claims, liabilities, injury, loss or damage I may suffer or incur arising from or connected with my participation in this event.
I grant full permission for the organisers and media to use photographs, film or video footage of me participating in Margate Pride CIC event and surrounding activities, promotion of this or similar events in the future or in relation to relevant fundraising activities.
In attending and registering you agree to our Code of Conduct:
Margate Pride CIC strictly adheres to the following code of conduct, and we expect all volunteers, employees, partners, licence holders, consultants, suppliers, clients, and customers, to follow these simple guidelines.
We ask this to make Margate Pride’s impact wide-reaching and long-lasting. We ask this to demonstrate your commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community, making Margate and beyond a safer and better place.
If you’re a Parade group or stallholder
The code of conduct applies equally to everyone in your parade group and/or on your stall.
You are collectively responsible for behaviour within your group.
Failure to comply with the code could result in you being asked to leave the parade and may affect future participation.
If you’re watching or attending Margate Pride
Abuse or threatening behaviour of any kind will not be tolerated at any Margate Pride event. If you have any concerns on the day, our trained stewards are positioned along the parade route and in other designated Margate Pride event spaces to offer support.
The Code of Conduct
Margate Pride expects everyone to be respectful of each other. Margate Pride will not tolerate any threatening, violent or offensive behaviour against its volunteers, staff, facilitators, creatives, parade participants, stallholders, security personnel or members of the public.
We welcome and support people of all backgrounds and identities. This includes, but is not limited to, members of any sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, social and economic class, educational level, colour, immigration status, sex, age, size, family status, religion, and mental and physical ability.
We all depend on each other to produce the best work we can as a community organisation so ask everyone to be considerate. Your decisions will affect clients, customers, and colleagues, and you should take those consequences into account when making decisions.
Always conduct yourself professionally. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down others. Harassment and exclusionary behaviour aren’t acceptable. This includes, but is not limited to:
Threats of violence.
Discriminatory jokes and language.
Sharing sexually explicit or violent material via electronic devices or other means.
Personal insults, especially those using racist or sexist terms.
Unwelcome sexual attention.
Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behaviour.
1. Any individual found to be consuming illegal substances on the parade route or wider event footprint will be removed.
2. Margate Pride requests that everyone act responsibly and according to the law with regards to alcohol consumption across the festival and year-round programming.
3. Obscenity, indecent exposure or sexual acts in public by parade participants or stallholders is not allowed in the parade, along the parade route or any other event space managed by Margate Pride. As a guidance, ‘swimsuit coverage’ on the bottom half is the minimum requirement.
4. Margate Pride expects participants to align with its environmental and sustainability policy to reduce, reuse, and recycle. This includes:
– Only using biodegradable glitter
– No smoke, paint or glitter bombs
– No stickers or single use handouts
– No releasing of balloons
– The use of compostable crockery and cutlery
Organising Team
Margate Pride CIC